Thursday, June 30, 2011

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Trust in the Lord with all your heart,and lean not on your own understanding;In all your ways acknowledge Him,and He will make your paths straight.---Proverbs 3:5-6

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption. And by him we cry "Abba, Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.

---Romans 8:15

We witness a miracle every time a child enters into life. But those who make their journey home across time and miles, growing within the hearts of those who wait to love them, are carried on the wings of destiny and placed among us by God's very own hands.--Kristi Larson

Oct 7, 2009------Steve's Birthday AND 70th Birthday of the Baby Home in Kaluga

Sept 29, 2009----Petition to adopt baby K notarized, apostilled, and Fed Exed to agency--ALSO, as of today, we've officially been pursuing this adoption for 4 YEARS!

Sept 20, 2009---Our first meeting with baby K

Sep 17-26, 2009--Travel to Russia to meet baby K

Aug 11, 2009----FBI fingerprints taken and mailed

Aug 7, 2009-----Visa applications mailed

July 28, 2009---Travel dates to visit baby K in Kaluga

mid July 2009---Dossier registered in Kaluga region

July 6, 2009---- Dossier pulled from Tula region

Apr 9, 2009-----Dossier registered in Tula region

Feb 24, 2009----Dossier #2 in Russia

Feb 20, 2009----Homeland Security fingerprints renewed

Feb 13, 2009----Dossier #2 apostilled

Feb 11, 2009----Dossier #2 to notary

Feb 6, 2009-----Homestudy #2 finished

Nov 21, 2008----Physicals for homestudy #2

Nov 7, 2008-----Fingerprints done for homestudy #2

Nov 4, 2008-----Homestudy visit with social worker

Oct 21, 2008----Contract signed with CSS

Sept 26, 2008---Received paperwork from CSS

Sept 17, 2008---Visited Dr. and diagnosed with shingles, received call from CHI that Izhevsk is "closed"

Sept 10, 2008---First call to CSS

Aug, 2008------CHI guidelines for correspondence with regions "changed" but no clear communication as to how or what this will mean for us. Follow-up call to agency gives us very different information than just 3 months previously

Dec 13, 2007---First trip to Homeland Security, first set of fingerprints for Homeland Security

Oct 25, 2007---Homestudy finished

Aug 10, 2007---First set of fingerprints for adoption

July 31, 2007---First physicals for adoption

July 5, 2007----Homestudy biographies finished

July 2007------First agencies reaccredited to work in Russia

April 2007-----Began to work on homestudy

July 2006-Spring 2007--International adoptions from Russia basically shut down during this period, while we were also attempting to get settled and moved-in. This was the "black night of the soul" period for me

June 2006-----Moved

Early 2006-----Attempted to straighten out the miscommunication with CHI, began the process of paperwork for homestudy, but then learned around March that we were to be moving in June. Agency advised us to wait until after we were settled in new home to begin the homestudy